Climate pledges of world's top carbon emitters

Despite their 2015 pledge to limit global warming by slashing carbon emissions, big countries' commitments so far still fall short of meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement, monitors say.

If we go over 1.5 ℃, then what?

Based on current emissions trajectories, chances are that our planet will exceed the Paris Agreement's 1.5 ℃ global warming threshold. Even exceeding this temperature temporarily could end up significantly limiting our ...

UN adopts landmark resolution on climate justice (Update)

The UN General Assembly took a major step towards urgent global climate action Wednesday as members adopted a resolution calling for the world body's top court to outline nations' legal obligations related to curbing warming.

UN to deliver diagnosis, prescription for climate crisis

The United Nations was poised to release a capstone report Monday distilling nearly a decade of published science on the impacts and trajectory of global warming, and the tools available to prevent climate catastrophe.

IPCC: the climate handbook for a 'liveable' future

Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years, but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be but a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a "liveable" future at risk.

Governments vet crucial UN climate science report

Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists began a week-long huddle in Switzerland on Monday to distill nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about the existential danger of global ...

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